Curl clip



April 25, 1950 H PECK 2,505,719

CURL CLIP Filed July 5, 1947 Patented Apr. 25, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CURL CLIP Irving H. Peck, Derby, Conn., assigner to The Star Pin Company, Derby, Conn., a corporation of Connecticut 4 Claims.

This invention relates to curl clips such as used in beauty parlors for the purpose of curling hair or setting hair waves.

Articles of this kind have been used which are provided with fulcrumed clamping members spring pressed so as to bring about clamping pressure of certain jaw portions on the hair, the fulcrumed members also being provided with manipulating portions at the other side of the fulcrum which are grasped by the lingers and pressed toward each other for the purpose of separating the jaw portions.

In some prior articles of this general type there has been difficulty in maintaining .proper location and alignment of the fulcrumed members.

In other prior articles of this class there has been complication and difficulty as regards the fulcruming of the two members, and the provisions for securing the required resilient clamp.. ing effect.

One of the objects is to overcome the abovementioned difficulties and drawbacks.

A further object is to provide an improved and simplied all-metal curl clip.

Another purpose of the invention is to provide an article of this class which can be easily sterilized and maintained in a clean, sanitary condition.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a curl clip embodying the invention, showing the jaw portions in.

the closed position;

Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the jaw portions open;

Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the article shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan View of the same article; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged section on line 5 5 of Fig. 3.

In the article selected for illustration, the clip comprises fulcrumed members each comprising an elongated jaw portion, and a relatively short manipulating rear end portion, the fulcrum between the members being provided adjacent the junctures of the jaw portions and the manipulat ing portions. The jaw portions are normally pressed toward each other, for the purpose of clamping the hair, by a metal spring which acts upon the fulcrumed members in the region of the rear portions of the jaws, and this spring serves the additional function, as hereinafter described, of maintaining the proper relative location and alignment of the fulcrumed members.

-In Figs. 1 and 2 the lower fulcrumed member is indicated at I and the upper one at I I. Member ID comprises the elongated jaw portion I2 and the manipulating rear end portion I3, whereas member II comprises the elongated jaw portion I 4 and the manipulating rear end portion I5. The spring, previously mentioned, is generally indicated at I6, the same in this form being constituted by a narrow leaf or bar shaped as hereinafter described.

In the form shown the jaw portion |12 of member Il! is flat so as to lie in a single plane, and the manipulating portion I3 is bent upwardly with respect to the jaw portion (Fig. l) so as to lie at a slight angle thereto. It is also evident from Fig. 1 that the manipulating portion I5 of the upper member is bent upwardly from the general plane of its associated jaw to a greater degree than in the case of the lower member, so that, in the position of Fig. 1, the manipulating portions diverge slightly from each other.

The jaw portions of the members I0 and lI are bifurcated throughout portions of their length so as to make certain portions of the jaws of fork shape. This is produced by cutting away the middle portion of the lower jaw, as indicated at I'I, and similarly cutting away the middle portion of the upper jaw, as indicated at I8. The cut-away portions terminate short of the rear ends of the jaw portions, as indicated. in Fig. 5, so as to provide upon the jaw portions solid or uncut parts I9 and 20, respectively, that are adapted to be maintained atwise in engagement with each other by the spring I6. This spring, as hereinafter described, has a portion that is located between the tines or branches of the forks that provide portions of the jaws.

The upper jaw I4 (Fig. 1) does not lie in a single plane, but has a forward portion I 4 of substantial length bent at a slight angle to the general plane of the jaw so as to provide a hairreceiving recess 2l between the lower and upper' This recess increases progressively in. depth from the forward tips of the jaw-s to a line jaws.

somewhat forwardly of the spring IG, and from that line the upper jaw has a short reversely sloping bend 22 that is joined to the planar rear portion of the upper jaw.

The fulcrum between the jaws is provided in part by the bend between the jaw portion and the manipulating portion of the upper member I I, which bend provides an angular portion 23 upon the lower surface of the upper member adapted to rock or tilt upon the upper surface of the lower member. Adjacent the fulcruming portion the lower member is provided with side 5 6 and lug and notch means of engagement between UNITED STATES PATENTS said base portion and said members to inhibit Number Name Date the relative longitudinal movement of said mem- 1 946 561 Widerman Feb. 13, 1934 bers, the lug means passing through notches in 2133145 Jones om 11 1933 both members- 6 2200624 Jones May 14, 1940 IRVING H- PECK 2,426,253 casazza Aug. 26, 1947 REFERENCES CITED 2,459,452 Rexner et a1 Jan. 18, 1949 The following references are of record in the file of this Ipatent: lo 

